Captive Cetaceans are tragically sad compared to their free ranging families in the ocean. Throughout this blog I have tried to provide links to information stated enabling you to check things out and make your own minds up. Research really is the key, don't be told what to think and say, check it out for yourself.

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

2013/2014 Taiji Drive Hunt Record and Figures

2013/2014 Taiji Drive Hunt Record and Figures

Thank you to the Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians and Ric O'Barry's Cove Monitors without which no one would be aware of the goings on in the cove.

There were 54 days of successful drives during the 179 day period from 1st September to 26th February, so although it didn't actually feel like it, 125 days were blue cove days.

The hunt season per day links will take you to the Sea Shepherd cove Guardians albums.

After the global attention brought to Taiji from the huge bottlenose capture and the appearance of Angel Shoujo, many countries have held protests at Japanese Embassies across the globe, Ministers and Ambassadors have expressed their condemnation of the hunt, and hopefully this will be the last hunt we see.

The person able to stop the drive hunt is Shinzo Abe Prime Minister of Japan as whilst the fishermen keep stating it is legal they will not stop it. The hunt didn't start until 1969 so it is NOT tradition as they claim, nor is it Taiji culture. Many many whaling towns closed when the IWC introduced the whaling ban and now many of those towns flourish embracing their whaling history as a tourist destination. The other drive hunting town of Futo is doing exactly that and is now also asking the people of Taiji to follow suit.There are many petitions in our petition folder but the one relevant at the moment is here, please sign it and hopefully we will never see this drive hunt again.

The Fisheries Minister issued the quota of 2013/2014 QUOTA: 2,013 total animals from seven species

Since the start of the season on September 1st, 2013 a total of 1,450
dolphins from six species have been driven into the cove in Taiji,
Japan. Of this total 834 were slaughtered, 158 were live-capture and 457 were released.

There were well short of the quota's which you would think will make them look at how they work them out They still had 292 bottlenose left in quota 70 false killer whales - caught none 284 Pantropical spotted dolphins 126 Pacific white sided dolphins - only caught 8 67 Risso's dolphins 75 Short finned pilot whales 107 Striped dolphins The quota was 1021 dolphins short, they caught under half the quota given!!! Bottlenose : 566 caught · 144 killed · 121 live-capture · 300 released · 265 total take · quota = 557 · 292 more allowed